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Two Column behavior
The usual preamble I'm new to this group and to the depth and
capabilities of Word(2000 for now). I'm am, or was, a casual user but just inherited a local newsletter. The old newsletter was a series of cut and paste ala with scissors and tape by a delightful non-computer person. It didn't take much to take the past months doc and OCR scan the contents into Word. At the moment I'm staying with the very basic Normal Style with various bolding, font size, underlining for headers. I'm now experimenting with various permutations of two column and I don't understand how text sometimes gets balanced in half a page and in others it behaves as I would expect, fill the left column and off to fill the right column. So, before I bore you any specifics is there any place online that documents in some more detail the behavior of muti-columns? I have a book on order which I hope will help with this and as I get smarter I can take advantage of more than basic stuff. I have a short runway to get the next letter out so the book may not come in time. I hoping there some advanced help files I can reference so if nothing else, I can ask a smarter question. -Doug Freese |
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Two Column behavior
Hi Doug,
The mysteries of columns in Word are discussed at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingColumns.htm. At one point it answers your question about balancing columns: "Whenever you have a multicolumn section in the middle of a page, Word will automatically balance the columns for you. If you want the columns to break differently (that is, unevenly), you can either insert a column break (Ctrl+Shift+Enter) or control text flow using the 'Keep with next' and/or 'Keep lines together' paragraph properties." What it doesn't say explicitly is that the thing that causes balancing is the insertion of a continuous section break at the end of the multicolumn text. Another article that may be useful for you is http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...panColumns.htm. "Doug Freese" wrote: The usual preamble I'm new to this group and to the depth and capabilities of Word(2000 for now). I'm am, or was, a casual user but just inherited a local newsletter. The old newsletter was a series of cut and paste ala with scissors and tape by a delightful non-computer person. It didn't take much to take the past months doc and OCR scan the contents into Word. At the moment I'm staying with the very basic Normal Style with various bolding, font size, underlining for headers. I'm now experimenting with various permutations of two column and I don't understand how text sometimes gets balanced in half a page and in others it behaves as I would expect, fill the left column and off to fill the right column. So, before I bore you any specifics is there any place online that documents in some more detail the behavior of muti-columns? I have a book on order which I hope will help with this and as I get smarter I can take advantage of more than basic stuff. I have a short runway to get the next letter out so the book may not come in time. I hoping there some advanced help files I can reference so if nothing else, I can ask a smarter question. -Doug Freese -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word |
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Two Column behavior
"Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Hi Doug, Thanks Jay!! Now I have enough rope to help or hang myself. At least I will be able to describe the rope. Merci, Doug Freese The mysteries of columns in Word are discussed at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/UsingColumns.htm. At one point it answers your question about balancing columns: "Whenever you have a multicolumn section in the middle of a page, Word will automatically balance the columns for you. If you want the columns to break differently (that is, unevenly), you can either insert a column break (Ctrl+Shift+Enter) or control text flow using the 'Keep with next' and/or 'Keep lines together' paragraph properties." What it doesn't say explicitly is that the thing that causes balancing is the insertion of a continuous section break at the end of the multicolumn text. Another article that may be useful for you is http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...panColumns.htm. "Doug Freese" wrote: The usual preamble I'm new to this group and to the depth and capabilities of Word(2000 for now). I'm am, or was, a casual user but just inherited a local newsletter. The old newsletter was a series of cut and paste ala with scissors and tape by a delightful non-computer person. It didn't take much to take the past months doc and OCR scan the contents into Word. At the moment I'm staying with the very basic Normal Style with various bolding, font size, underlining for headers. I'm now experimenting with various permutations of two column and I don't understand how text sometimes gets balanced in half a page and in others it behaves as I would expect, fill the left column and off to fill the right column. So, before I bore you any specifics is there any place online that documents in some more detail the behavior of muti-columns? I have a book on order which I hope will help with this and as I get smarter I can take advantage of more than basic stuff. I have a short runway to get the next letter out so the book may not come in time. I hoping there some advanced help files I can reference so if nothing else, I can ask a smarter question. -Doug Freese -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word |
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